South Dakota voters asked to approve work requirement for Medicaid expansion
9 months, 3 weeks ago

South Dakota voters asked to approve work requirement for Medicaid expansion

Associated Press  

South Dakota voters will decide this fall whether the state can impose work requirements on certain low-income people receiving Medicaid health care coverage, which would modify the program expansion voters approved in 2022. South Dakota Republican lawmakers want to add a work requirement for adults who are not physically or mentally disabled but who are eligible for Medicaid under the expansion of the government- Even if voters approve the measure, the federal government will have to sign off on a work requirement. Republican Rep. Tony Venhuizen, a prime sponsor of the work requirement measure, described it as a “clarifying question” for voters on a specific point. “When you listen to the opposition on this, you hear people who very clearly want people to go on Medicaid expansion and stay on it for a long period of time as their plan for health care, and I just don’t think that’s the purpose of social programs in South Dakota.

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Column: GOP targets Medicaid with the return of a terrible idea
1 month ago

Column: GOP targets Medicaid with the return of a terrible idea

LA Times  

Asa Hutchinson announces his state’s plan to impose work requirements on Medicaid enrollees in 2018, as then-President Trump’s Medicaid boss, Seema Verma, looks on. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg and a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found that the legal waivers that allowed individual states to experiment with work requirements didn’t …

Can a Medicaid plan that requires work succeed? First year of Georgia experiment is not promising
5 months, 1 week ago

Can a Medicaid plan that requires work succeed? First year of Georgia experiment is not promising

New Indian Express  

Pathways requires all recipients to show at least 80 hours of work monthly, volunteer activity, schooling or vocational rehabilitation. The launch coincided with a federally mandated review of the eligibility of all 2.7 million Medicaid recipients in the state following the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, another challenging task for Georgia officials. “Pathways deserves more time to see …

Mississippi Medicaid expansion plan could struggle for bipartisan support, Democratic leader says
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Mississippi Medicaid expansion plan could struggle for bipartisan support, Democratic leader says

Associated Press  

— A Medicaid expansion plan endorsed by leaders in the Republican-led Mississippi Legislature could struggle for bipartisan support because it includes a work requirement that is unlikely to receive federal approval, the state House Democratic leader said Tuesday. Approving the plan could create false hope among people who want Medicaid coverage but might not receive it, Rep. Robert Johnson told …

South Dakota Legislature ends session but draws division over upcoming abortion rights initiative
9 months, 2 weeks ago

South Dakota Legislature ends session but draws division over upcoming abortion rights initiative

Associated Press  

South Dakota’s Republican-led Legislature wrapped up on Thursday after about two months of work in a session that largely aligned with Gov. Lawmakers sent a $7.3 billion budget for fiscal 2025 to Noem, including 4% increases for the state’s “big three” funding priorities of K-12 education, health care providers and state employees. The Legislature also passed bills funding prison construction, …

Georgia has the nation’s only Medicaid work requirement. Mississippi could be next
10 months ago

Georgia has the nation’s only Medicaid work requirement. Mississippi could be next

Associated Press  

— After years of refusing to expand Medicaid, some of Mississippi’s Republican leaders now say they are open to the policy — if they can require new enrollees to have a job. Hosemann said Georgia, the only state that requires Medicaid recipients to meet a work requirement, could be a model for Mississippi. “Georgia’s successful implementation of a work requirement …

Georgia launches Medicaid expansion in closely watched test of work requirements
1 year, 5 months ago

Georgia launches Medicaid expansion in closely watched test of work requirements

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Georgia is offering a new bargain to some adults without health insurance beginning Saturday: Go to work or school and the state will cover you. Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration is unlikely to approve work requirements, but a future Republican president could, said Madeline Guth, a senior policy analyst with KFF, a nonprofit that studies health care issues. …

Here’s what’s in, what’s out of the debt limit bill to avert US default
1 year, 6 months ago

Here’s what’s in, what’s out of the debt limit bill to avert US default

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have been working the phones in an intense push to sell Congress on the 99-page bill that would suspend the nation’s debt limit through 2025 to avoid a federal default while limiting government spending. With the details of the deal now released, here’s what’s in and out: TWO-YEAR DEBT LIMIT …

What GOP’s plan for Medicaid work requirements would mean
1 year, 7 months ago

What GOP’s plan for Medicaid work requirements would mean

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — More than a half million of the poorest Americans could be left without health insurance under legislation passed by House Republicans that would require people to work in exchange for health care coverage through Medicaid. The work requirements say able-bodied adults ages 19 to 55 who don’t have children or other dependents would be required to work, train …

Arkansas to seek new work requirement for Medicaid expansion
1 year, 10 months ago

Arkansas to seek new work requirement for Medicaid expansion

Associated Press  

— Arkansas will ask the federal government to allow the state to require people on its expanded Medicaid program to work, Gov. A federal judge last year cleared Georgia’s plan to partially expand Medicaid with a work requirement. Joan Alker, executive director of Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, said the latest approach “adds a bizarre twist” to Arkansas’ …

NC legislators: Medicaid expansion efforts pushed to 2023
2 years, 1 month ago

NC legislators: Medicaid expansion efforts pushed to 2023

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Republican legislative leaders said Wednesday that they’re shuttling the idea of Medicaid expansion to 2023, rather than attempting to negotiate a bill that could be voted on before the General Assembly’s current two-year edition ends in December. As for expansion, Moore said: “I think we’ll deal with that next year.” The two-year session concludes Dec. …

'The right thing to do': Voters in deep red South Dakota approve Medicaid expansion
2 years, 1 month ago

'The right thing to do': Voters in deep red South Dakota approve Medicaid expansion

Raw Story  

Defying their right-wing political leaders, South Dakota voters on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment to expand the state's Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act, a move that will extend public health insurance coverage to around 45,000 low-income people. "We're glad that South Dakota voters saw that helping our neighbors get healthcare is the right thing to do." "We're glad …

South Dakota approves Medicaid expansion over GOP resistance
2 years, 1 month ago

South Dakota approves Medicaid expansion over GOP resistance

Associated Press  

— South Dakota voters on Tuesday approved the expansion of Medicaid health insurance to tens of thousands of low-income residents through a constitutional amendment. But proponents for expansion have found success through ballot measures across GOP-dominated states, and a wide coalition of health care groups and organizations backed a well-funded ballot campaign this year in South Dakota. “We’re glad that …

2nd Medicaid expansion group submits petition for ballot
2 years, 7 months ago

2nd Medicaid expansion group submits petition for ballot

Associated Press  

— A second group attempting to expand Medicaid eligibility in South Dakota submitted petition signatures to the secretary of state Tuesday in a bid to place a proposed law on the November ballot and create a rival to a proposed constitutional amendment. State law requires initiated measures to submit nearly 17,000 signatures from South Dakota registered voters, and the secretary …

South Dakota health groups push Medicaid expansion as ‘deal’
3 years, 6 months ago

South Dakota health groups push Medicaid expansion as ‘deal’

Associated Press  

— A campaign group backed by South Dakota’s major health care systems announced Wednesday that it will begin gathering petition signatures for a ballot measure to expand Medicaid to provide health coverage for low-income people. Two separate groups are launching ballot-measure campaigns for the November 2022 election, while top Republican lawmakers are pushing voters to install into the state constitution …

Column: Biden drives another nail into the coffin of Medicaid work requirements
3 years, 9 months ago

Column: Biden drives another nail into the coffin of Medicaid work requirements

LA Times  

Asa Hutchinson is the only governor to implement Medicaid work rules — though a dozen others have tried. Last month, the Biden administration turned thumbs down on the work requirements several red states tried to impose on Medicaid during the Trump years — but it left the door ajar by a crack if states could show that the rules made …

Column: Goodbye to those stupid, useless and biased Medicaid work requirements
3 years, 10 months ago

Column: Goodbye to those stupid, useless and biased Medicaid work requirements

LA Times  

Asa Hutchinson announces approval of work requirements for Medicaid in 2018, joined by President Trump’s Medicaid director, Seema Verma. Healthcare experts warned from the inception that work requirements would throw thousands of people off Medicaid, wouldn’t increase employment, would be expensive to administer, would probably be ruled illegal and were unnecessary. The CMS told Arkansas and New Hampshire, which also …

Biden administration to undo Medicaid work requirements
3 years, 10 months ago

Biden administration to undo Medicaid work requirements

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is moving to roll back Medicaid work requirements in its latest effort to undo a controversial Trump-era policy. The Trump administration allowed states to require “able-bodied” adults drawing Medicaid benefits to work, volunteer or study. Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge called the decision by the Biden administration an “overreach of executive power.” “It is unfortunate …

Medicaid expansion advocates prepare for 2022 ballot push
4 years, 5 months ago

Medicaid expansion advocates prepare for 2022 ballot push

Associated Press  

— The South Dakota attorney general on Friday filed explanations for a pair of 2022 ballot measures that would expand federal Medicaid eligibility in the state. Weiland is sponsoring an initiated measure, which would force the Legislature to pass Medicaid expansion, and a constitutional measure that would be protected from legislators dismantling the law in the future. He will have …

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